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Viator's Top Rated Award

Viator’s 2017 Top Rated Award

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In recognition of the impressive ratings from Viator users, Turislucca is proud to have received Viator’s 2017 Top Rated Award. Turislucca achieved Viator’s Top Rated Award, distinguishing you as an outstanding provider for the world’s leading tours, activities and attractions booking platform. You’re part of a select, high-performing group to receive this honor, thanks to your consistently impressive ratings from Viator and TripAdvisor customers around the globe this past year. We’re thrilled to count you as one of our top-rated supply partners. Your team works hard to provide high-quality and unforgettable experiences, and you deserve to be recognized. We encourage you to proudly share your achievement and showcase to our mutual customers that Turislucca is among the very best in the business.

The Walls of Lucca

The Wall of Lucca…

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From My Travel in Tuscany: I have to thanks a friend of mine that suggested me to get this unusual tour created by Turislucca, a group of experienced authorized tour guides with a great knowledge of the town, that told me tons of interesting facts about the history of their birthplace. If a “must to do” in town is a bike ride along the wide and shady path of the fortification that surrounds the historical center, the majority of tourists don’t know that the main bastions hide ancient underground to discover. Stories of castles, fortress, and knights always fascinated me that the idea to explore the underground of the walls of Lucca made me very excited. We booked few days in advance because there are only two or three walking tours of the underground every month and so far,...

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The Rolling Stones in Lucca: the music event of the year

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The Rolling Stones have announced their European tour in September and October. The 2017 tour “STONES – NO FILTER” will give the opportunity to Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Woods to do what they like the most: travelling the world and playing for their fans. This European tour is following last year’s amazing tour of South America tour that is culminated with the memorable concert in Havana (Cuba). For the only Italian show of the tour, the Rolling Stones have chosen Lucca and Tuscany, an area that has been always fascinating for the band. The venue chosen, Lucca city walls, has never been used before for a major live music event. The night will be the occasion to celebrate, also, the 20th anniversary of the Lucca Summer Festival.”

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2017 TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence

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Turislucca today announced that it has received a TripAdvisor® Certificate of Excellence. The achievement celebrates hospitality businesses that have earned great traveller reviews on TripAdvisor over the past year. Certificate of Excellence recipients include accommodations, eateries and attractions located all over the world that have continually delivered a quality customer experience. With the Certificate of Excellence, TripAdvisor honours hospitality businesses that have consistently received strong praise and ratings from travellers. This recognition helps travellers identify and book properties that regularly deliver great service. TripAdvisor is proud to play this integral role in helping travellers feel more confident in their booking decisions. Heather Leisman, Vice President of Industry Marketing, TripAdvisor. The Certificate of Excellence accounts for the quality, quantity and recency of reviews submitted by travellers on TripAdvisor over a 12-month period. To qualify, a business must maintain an overall...

Gioco del Ponte - Pisa

The Battle on the Bridge

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via giocodelpontepisa.it: “The Battle on the Bridge comes alive with two armies dressed in elaborate and shimmering sixteenth century Spanish costumes. It is divided into five phases: the march of the troops along the Lungarni until their arrival in their respective bases, the formal opening of the battle by the Anziano Rettore, the “call to arms” by the troops, the challenges made by ambassadors on horseback, and finally, the battle itself, as the various magistrature compete under the strategic command of their respective leaders. “

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Green Day at Lucca Summer Festival

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via Lucca Summer Festival: Green Day were kids from working-class backgrounds who came of age in the underground punk scene in Berkeley. Though they had already released two albums (1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours and Kerplunk), the band truly announced its arrival with 1994’s Dookie, a dynamic blast of exuberant punk-pop that sold 15 million copies and earned the band its first Grammy® Award for Best Alternative Music Performance. Over the years, Green Day continued to top the charts with the subsequent studio albums Insomniac, Nimrod, and Warning, while entertaining millions of fans with their frenetic live shows. But it was their landmark 2004 album American Idiot that launched Green Day into the stratosphere…

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Kate McLoughlin

Thank-you so much for providing this service

Our family took the 2pm, 2 hour tour on Tuesday 9th May, 2017.
We just wanted to pass on our thanks to the tour guide, she was absolutely fantastic.
She passed on her clear love for the city, but also gave us a wonderful insight into many of the beautiful places that make up Lucca.

Thank-you so much for providing this service.

Best wishes
Kate, Pete, Jack and Bella McLoughlin
Melbourne, Australia

Mr Mei's tart

Mei’s Sweet Pastry Tarts. “Experiential” Tourism 2017

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Tuscany, Lucca, March, the sun, and the desire for spring. Another new season begins. And here I am, in the streets of my “old” city. Lucca is older than me, and yet, it is as if it were 54 years old like me. I feel that it is part of my being, having walked and explored every single inch of it. You could say that when a new tourist-guiding season rolls round, I feel as if I were a 54-year-old tree that discovers its new leaves, leaves that look the same but are not the same of years past. If the old trees planted on the ramparts of the walls around the city could speak, they might say I was right. New stimulation and knowledge to impart to my new friends visiting Lucca. And this actually happens to almost...

Palazzo Mansi - Alcova

The Art of Taste and Taste in Art – Part 4

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Now let us talk about a place where sophisticated food and delicacies would be prepared and served to a select minority: the palazzos of the wealthy. There are two aspects to Palazzo Mansi. It is an emblematic example of the many patrician residences in Lucca and also a national museum that houses numerous paintings, an art gallery. Many of the paintings portray products that were cultivated in the territory in the past (and are still cultivated today) and the commercial activities and customs that went hand-in-hand with the products. The palazzo is located at Via Galli Tassi, 43. The exterior of the building with its light-coloured plaster walls and rather insignificant shuttered windows does not, in any way, exhibit the Baroque magnificence of the interior nor the precious handmade articles also found within. This is typical of the reserved...

Piazza Napoleone

The Art of Taste and Taste in Art – Part 3

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Another interesting aspect, from a historical point of view, is to find the places in town where commercial activity in regard to food and foodstuffs took place over the centuries beginning in medieval times through to the 19th century and compare it to today. Starting off at the Cathedral, we can stroll along the network of narrow streets that connected to the main axes of the city road system dating back to Roman times, the Cardo, that ran north – south, and the Decumanus, that ran east – west. Beyond Piazza Antelminelli, we enter Via San Donnino and then turn onto the charming Via del Battistero. Today, Via del Battistero is a succession of antique shops where an astute collector can find pieces of undisputed quality from any time period, be it furniture or figurative art, historically tied to...